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 | | Plato founded his Academy in 383 BC in a cave dedicated to the Muses and the hero Akademos. |
 | | The most important student at the Academy, from 368 BC until Plato's death in 348 BC, was Aristotle, who founded the second school referred to at the other end of Athens (335 BC - AD 425), which was called the Lykeion and, at least from the time of Theophrastos onwards, the Peripatos. |
 | | To these two schools are owed not only the preservation of many writings and lectures by their founders, and of earlier Greek literature, but also the consolidation of an awareness of the role of the book and the personal library in scholarly writing. |
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